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As South Florida grapples with loss, Jewish community props up first responders, family
“We are stronger together. We’ll be around as long as it takes, supporting and in solidarity with this amazing community and people. Our friendship is solid and everlasting,” posted Israel Consul General to Miami Maor Elbaz-Starinsky.
The Israel Defense Forces sent a search and rescue delegation to Florida to assist with efforts following the Surfside residential building collapse.
By Faygie Levy Holt, JNS, and EJP
While the wait continues for word on those missing after Champlain Towers South, a condominium in the heavily Jewish area of Surfside, Fla., partially collapsed on Thursday morning, area Jewish groups are stepping in offer support and comfort to the community and to family members who have arrived to the area seeking news.
“We are stronger together. We’ll be around as long as it takes, supporting and in solidarity with this amazing community and people. Our friendship is solid and everlasting,” posted Israel Consul General to Miami Maor Elbaz-Starinsky.
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While violence rages between Israel and Hamas, some of the worst reactions have come from Democrats, namely members of the squad. Their fellow Democrats are finally calling them out, though, in the form of a letter addressed to President Joe Biden from Democratic members of Congress, including Reps. Josh Gottheimer (NJ), Elaine Luria (VA), Kathy Manning (NC), and Dean Phillips (MN).
As a relevant part of the letter read:
We also reject comments from Members of Congress accusing Israel of being an “apartheid state” and committing “act[s] of terrorism.” These statements are antisemitic at their core and contribute to a climate that is hostile to many Jews. We must never forget that less than eighty years ago, within the lifetime of our parents and grandparents, six million people were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust because they were Jews. Israel has long provided the Jewish people with a homeland in which they can be